The Nets are going to take a three-game skid on the road, where they’re already 0-3.

But naturally they’re finding the positive in a five-game western swing that starts Friday against the Lakers, one that could threaten to sink the 3-5 Nets into a deep hole less than a month into the season.

“[We have to] stay together, keep believing in the process, keep believing in each other, keep believing in what the coaches believe in and everything will change,” Rondae Hollis-Jefferson said of the trip.

But Hollis-Jefferson and Spencer Dinwiddie denied the theory the players got swelled heads after knocking off Cleveland, but admitted they have lost focus.

“[It’s about] keeping more composure. … It feels good to win. But after you win, you have to know how to handle it,” said Hollis-Jefferson.

“As a unit we haven’t done a good job of staying focused and continue down the path that we started. We’ve all put in too much work to let the reins go,” Dinwiddie said. “It’s definitely not a situation where we’re hitting the panic button. We just have to continue to go forward and recapture what we were doing.”

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That’s sharing the ball in their motion offense, passing up contested shots to get open looks for somebody else, and it’s paying attention to detail on defense — boxing out and helping on the boards against bigger teams.

Now they’ll have to do all that away from Barclays Center, one of just three 0-3 road teams in the league as play began Wednesday.

“Personally, I think it’s going to be fun,” Dinwiddie said. “It’s going to be a time for us to bond and like the way we did at training camp, and have everybody around and all that, and just spend some time together and grow as a unit, grow as brothers and hopefully get some wins.”

D’Angelo Russell agreed there are positives in finding an us-against-the-world mentality on a trip that includes stops in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, Portland and Utah. Those teams were a combined 11-8 at home entering Wednesday.

“We’ve got to play together through adversity, trust your teammates. They’ve got the home crowd … so you’ve just got to play together.

It’s only us in there,” Russell said. “When adversity hits, you’ve got to make it a stamp to do that: Play together, come together when it happens. Then we’ll be all right.“You’ve got to come in there and force the issue. Teams, when they come in here we’re on our heels, and it shouldn’t be like that. We’ve got to be aggressive. … So we go on the road, we’ve got to up that intensity.”

For Russell, it marks his first return to Staples Center since the Lakers dealt him away and team president Magic Johnson openly doubted his leadership.

“It’s the next game, so hopefully we can get a win,” Russell said. “Personally, I want to win.”